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 Raising the Salad Bar
Illustrated with luscious photographs and chock-full of inventive salad ideas to suit every taste, this is the only salad cookbook you’ll ever need. |
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Stone by Design
A stunning tribute to the work of island stonemason Lew French and his unique vision and craft. This coffee table book celebrates both the function and form of stone. |
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Vineyard Harvest
Inspiring recipes from island chef Tina Miller, illustrated with Alison's mouthwatering photos. |
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Finding Martha's Vineyard
A celebration of this magical island through the voices, photographs, remembrances and recipes of African Americans who call the Vineyard home. Illustrated with black-and-white portraits by Alison. |
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Vineyard Summer
A summer vacation in book form — page after page of beautiful color photographs that capture the light, the colors, the mood of summer on Martha's Vineyard.
(Out of print, limited supply) |
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Until I Saw the Sea
A collection of seashore poems for children, from traditional nursery rhymes to comtemporary verse, illustrated with colorful, seaside photos. (Out of print, limited supply) |
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Remembrance and Light
Alison's first book is a collection of black & white photos of Martha's Vineyard. The images are coupled with essays by the late Henry Beetle Hough. (Out of print, limited supply) |
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Upcoming Book Projects
Beach Babies
A colorful and lively book that captures the essence of summer fun at the beach — babies, toddlers, and youngsters enjoying their favorite summer pastimes. Clever, playful text by Sue Dawson will accompany Alison's photos. To be published by Henry Holt and Company.
Schooner
Alison's photos, together with writer Tom Dunlop's compelling prose, chronicle the building of a 60-foot wooden schooner at Gannon and Benjamin Boat yard on Martha's Vineyard. The story begins with a dream and a handful of drawings, and ends with the schooner's first sail in Vineyard Sound. |
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Signed copies available!
Finding Martha's Vineyard:
African Americans at Home on an Island
By Jill Nelson
Black-and-white portraits by Alison Shaw
Published by Doubleday.
"In this elegant book of photographs, personal narrative, memories, and fascinating historical detail, bestselling author Jill Nelson conveys the special magic of Martha’s Vineyard and the African Americans who have summered or lived there for generations.
Nelson has been a summer and occasional year-round resident of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard for nearly fifty years. It was where she learned to swim and ride a bike, first kissed a boy, became a writer, and, during twenty-eight summers, raised her own daughter. In Finding Martha's Vineyard, Nelson offers a lively, intimate portrait of a place that has provided respite and rejuvenation, community and contemplation for generations of African Americans.
Part memoir, part history, Finding Martha's Vineyard describes the various groups who settled in Oak Bluffs: the black middle-class families who came each summer to escape the heat, hostility, and racial tension of their hometowns; the domestics, and other African Americans “in service” who accompanied their white employers to the island in the 1920s and 30s and over the years established a haven complete with community centers, civic organizations, and exclusive clubs for themselves and their descendants; and the fourth- and fifth-generation African American professionals — doctors, lawyers, presidential advisors, writers, and artists — who visit or live on the Vineyard today. Nelson interviews the Cottagers, the proud owners of Oak Bluffs’ famous Gingerbread Victorians; members of the Polar Bear Club, a die-hard group that swims together every summer at 7:00 A.M.; and such famous residents as Vernon Jordan, Spike Lee, Bebe Moore Campbell, and Stephen Carter.
Finding Martha's Vineyard is about the power of place in our lives. A rich treasury of reminiscences, excerpts from news articles and documents from the Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, recipes, and glorious photographs, it brings the sights, sounds, celebrations, and social importance of the island community brilliantly to life."
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From the Doubleday 2005 catalog
"The best books transport us to other places, and this one transports me right back to the Vineyard."
— Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"Finding Martha's Vineyard is a joyful portrait of a special community on an island we all deem magical."
— Rose Styron
"Jill Nelson's lyrical love story about her place — Martha's Vineyard — captures what makes people like me and my family call the Vineyard our place, too. Like the Vineyard, her fine book is fuel for the soul."
— Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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